Brazil Refugee Camp
Brazil Refugee Camp is a suburb in Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip. Brazil Refugee Camp is situated nearby to the town Rafah, as well as near the suburb As Salam.Places of Interest
Highlights include Rafah and Rafah Border Crossing.
Rafah
Ruins
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Rafah is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
Rafah Border Crossing
Border checkpoint
Photo: Gigi Ibrahim, Public domain.
The Rafah Border Crossing or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than Israel. Rafah Border Crossing is situated 2½ km south of Brazil Refugee Camp.
Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins
Ruins
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Yasser Arafat International Airport was an airport in the Gaza Strip. It was located between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords and opened on 24 November 1998 as Gaza International Airport. Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins is situated 3½ km southeast of Brazil Refugee Camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rafah and Rafah Refugee Camp.
Rafah
Town
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Rafah is a largely destroyed and depopulated city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, that serves as the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located 30 kilometers south-west of Gaza City.
Rafah Refugee Camp
Suburb
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Rafah Camp is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the Rafah Governorate along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of Rafah.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which formerly had a camp at the location. Canada Camp is situated 2½ km northwest of Brazil Refugee Camp.
Brazil Refugee Camp
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.2718° or 31° 16′ 19″ northLongitude
34.25318° or 34° 15′ 12″ eastOpen location code
8G3P77C3+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 330034964OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Korean—“Brazil Refugee Camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم البرازيل”
- French: “Camp Brésil”
- Hebrew: “מחנה פליטים ברזיל”
- Korean: “브라질 난민촌”
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